Such fun last week when I finally met the über talented photographer Carla Coulson. We’d been trying to get together for ages but she moves around a lot and so do I, so it took a while to come about … but the wait was worth it!
Carla is a warm and bubbly lady, whose enthusiasm for a good picture is totally contagious. She is Australian, married to an Italian and living in Paris and has written three books and taken the photos for others.
I often pop over to her blog, in particular to see her latest portrait photography. Carla has made a specialty of portrait photography, in particular of women, and the results are always divine.
When we met for coffee, she told me about her new on-line store, Departure Lounge where she has just launched her new collection of photographic prints. You can see them all HERE. As the name suggests, Departure Lounge is all about her beautiful travel photography, and she is offering a choice of over 100 photos, that can be printed to the size of your choice.
To celebrate her new store, we are both running a giveaway, and the good news is that you can take part in both!! double your chances of winning!!
To take part , and try to win a print you need to do the following:
Check out Departure Lounge and favourite the image you like (there is a little heart at the top of the image)
Or you can favourite her shop Departure Lounge and come back here to let me know which photo you like best
Subscribe to Carla’s website and to mine
Leave a comment below.
And when you’ve completed your entry here, then just pop over to Carla’s blog and enter there too! And don’t forget to act fast, because the winners will be drawn this Friday at 6pm Paris time!
Don’t forget that the winner will be able to choose any print they wish, and any size (up to 20 x 30″). These prints would make great Christmas presents!
Voilà! Good luck to you all!
191 comments
It would be a privilege to win one of these photos! Thanks!
Hard to choose just one, we just returned home after a wonderful time in France, loved the Paris images
Thanks
Stunning photos – love the one of the Italian Baroque door with the jade green shutters above.
Love your work, Carla. Enjoying the shots of Italy….takes me back to one of the best vacations ever !
I absolutely love each and every photo. They would all look wonderful in my home and I would remineice of Paris each time I passed the photo. Wow, it is difficult to choose just one, but I do love the first photo with it’s brilliant yellow color mums in the gorgeous vintage urns. They are spectacular!
As a black and white film photographer I really the appreciate the composition and charm of Carla’s photos. What a talented lady.
Love these! All totally amazing, my current favourite is the white buildings with the hanging washing xxx
Although her beautiful photos of Greece remind me of the year that I lived on Crete there is still something about Paris. Beautiful work. It would go in my entry.
It was hard to choose but in the end I loved the black and white snowy photos. I wound up chosing the one with the two people in front of the Boulangerie but the Place des Vosges ones were almost an even choice!
I have followed Carla’s journey and beautiful work for years and own all her inspiring books. It would be incredible to hang one of her prints in my home so I can dream of Paris and Italy and so it can inspire my own creative journey. It’s so hard to pick just one (hence all the favourite hearts on Etsy) but I love the photo taken at 3am in Florence in Piazza della Repubblica! “where is she going?” xxx
Her photos are absolutely fabulous! Thanks for the chance to win. 😉
Love them all but have a kinship to interior scenes. I’ve favorited: Paris Apartment, Paris Interior, Moulded Walls, Paris, France
Capri Black Dress captures my imagination. Wonderful movement and perfectly balanced. Wow!
Thanks for telling me about this artist.
HUmmm I’ve forgot to leave my favorite choice here: ” Île grecque, Sifnos, bougainvilliers”. So hard to decide myself, because all the photos are beautiful…Thanks again.
Her work is spectacular! The pink roses are so romantic!
Hard to choose a favorite! Carla’s images have always stopped me in my virtual tracks 🙂
Great photos! I especially liked “Paris, Paris In Love, Paris Bridges, Pont des Arts, Paris Decor, French Decor, Black and White Photography”! I hope I win, so that her photo finds a warm place in my living room!
The rooftops photos remind me of so many places I’ve been. Beautiful!
I am a long time fan of Carla’s work. She is so inspirational and one of an ever-growing number of talented Australians making a global name for themselves. Proud to be an Aussie!
Love Paris and France, dream of spending more time there. Also love the life and history in the Greek and Italian pictures.
Thank you for sharing!
This beautiful snowy print matches our Colorado weather this morning! Except I bet it isn’t 1 degree Fahrenheit in Paris right now. Brrr!!!
Marika
I love Carla’s work & have long admired the classic beauty and timeless appeal of her breathtaking photography. Thank you for this amazing giveaway opportunity – I’m an avid reader of your blog too! It is SO hard to pick just one favourite from Carla’s prints but I am a sucker for a gorgeous door and European architecture…so it has to be ‘Blue Baroque Door’ for me! Love & light from a fellow Aussie fan who shares your love of travel. I left Europe 8 years ago now, but I know part of my heart will always reside there! Heidi x
My favorite is “Bridge Over the River Seine.” I have the perfect spot for it.
This beautiful snowy print matches our Colorado weather this morning! Except I bet it isn’t 1 degree Fahrenheit in Paris right now. Brrr!!!
Marika
What a thrill it would be to win one of these gorgeous prints. Thank you so much for your wonderful offer and for whatever you did to help convince Carla to open her Departure Lounge. Her photos, your blog posts and Vicki Archer’s French Essence allow those of us who can only visit France, to live there vicariously through you. Merci, Merci, Merci!!
Carla’s beautiful work has a unique signature. I’ve attended one of her fabulous workshops in Sydney and ardently follow My French Country Home and Carla’s Photography blogs……….lots of inspiration on many levels. Warm regards
Alas, my September week in Paris was too short to spend a day in Normandy with you as I had hoped, but these wonderful photographs bring back beautiful memories!
Oh my, what beautiful work. I especially loved the snowy pictures of Paris. Thanks for the chance to win!
Beautiful photos! Hard to choose, but I love the boat on the River Seine in the morning light!!
I adore Carla’s style of photography – what a treat to be able to buy them now. Thank you for the chance to win one! I love the Paris Apartment Facade, Paris Ironwork, Black door shot the most.
What fun to wake up this mroning to a cheery and lovely site!!! Carla’s photography is stunning andever so magical!!! Rocky Mountains are baren this time of the year. Time fo rme to dream!!! Thanks for sharing a sensual part of the world this morning!! With a warm heart…………….
A Carla print in my home? Perfect. Love all of them, but the Luxembourg prints of the chairs and gardens, the shots of the cafés and the street shots are my faves. The winter black and whites are great, too. Thank you for the opportunity to win, and of course, now have the etsy site on my faves.
The photos are all fabulous and I am grateful for the introduction to Carla’s website. “Paris Streets, Paris Snow, Paris Cafe, Le Marais” particularly caught my eye as it is a collection of some of my favorite things….. Paris, Bicycles, and Le Marais…..snow is not a often a favorite of mine but in this photo it is perfect!
I’ve long followed you both…so happy about #departureloungeprints! Place des Voges in the snow reminds me of afternoons at Ma Bourgogne with hot chocolate.
I would be honored …absolutely delightful photographs
Thank you for introducing me to Carla’s work. What stunning photography!! I chose a Paris print as I just cannot resist Paris. Her photography makes me homesick though my home is in Maryland. But my home should be Paris!!! Thank you!
Luxenbourg Gardens, Empty Chairs! So hard to pick!
I already subscribe to your site.
best regards,
yvonne
I chose a photo showing snow-frosted pine trees in a Paris park – to remind me of the many winters I spent in Minnesota.
They are all so beautiful! Had a difficult time choosing a favorite. However, I believe mine to be the one that is taken from the bottom of a long staircase looking up. It’s black and white and the description says it was taken in Montemarte! (It’s description reads Le Boulangerie in Le Marais, but I’m thinking that may belong to the photo with the couple headed toward a Boulangerie! ) either way, I wish I was there again and these photos transport me in spirit!
Paris, Paris Gardens in the snow is my favorite! I love walking in the snow. It’s supposed to be in the 60’s here today…snow is just around the corner!
Oh that Morning Light at the River Seine….to be there on a morning stroll to greet the day. Thank you for the spotlight on a very talented woman.
LOVE all her pictures! My favorites are the Paris photos, especially Eiffel Tower, Paris Apartment, Paris Buildings, Paris, France. Thank you!
OK, call me fickle. I just re-visited her beautiful shop and fell in love with the photo entitled Venice, Italy, Travel Photography, St Marks Square, Photography. My husband and I had a wonderful, romantic trip to Venice and looking at the photo brought me right back to the moment we both stood at St. Mark’s Square for the first time. Breathtaking!
What a nice eye she has searching out places and things to photograph. They are are absolutely beautiful ~ it is like being in each photo. Ohhhh I’m crossing my fingers (and toes) I’m the lucky one!
I wish to have Luxembourg gardens with empty chairs where I met my husband in 1987!!! Thank you in advance, I would really be happy to have it!
Paris in Love!
Made me remember how magical it is to be absolutely and unrelentingly in love and young..my memories, evoked by this perfect print, have lasted almost 40 years. I could almost return to them through this image.
Thank you, Sharon. Thank you, Carla.
Such beautiful, textured, evocative photos! Very hard to choose just one, but I kept coming back to this: Boat Along The River Seine, Paris Bridge, Morning Light, Seine River, Paris
Oh my gosh, her pictures are TO DIE FOR! So beautiful…I loved so many but right now being in a fall/winter state of mind, I am going with Place Des Vosges Snow, how beautiful it is! I could design an entire room around her gorgeous photographs!
Love this. Brings back lovely memories.
Looked them all over again and changed my mind! I absolutely love “Paris, Paris Garden, Place Des Vosges Snow, Paris Streets, Paris Decor, French Decor.”
Thank you very much for this extra chance and thanks to Carla for letting me know of your website
Rosanna
Oh my, what a difficult choice! I think I’d choose the color photo of the Paris cafe (Cafe L’Etincelle) with the beautiful blue door next to it. It’s just so . . . well, Paris! Thanks for the chance to win such a wonderful piece of art for my wall! A piece that evokes such fond memories!
You are right, Carla’s work is amazing! I want to go to Greece immediately! My favorite though is the one of Luxembourg Gardens, Empty Chair,s Paris Gardens, Urns, Flowers. It is such a perfect depiction of the gardens and the season. I want to go back there as well!
All of her pictures are so beautiful! They evoke much wanderlust! 🙂 My favorite is either the roses in Paris, the lovely snow-covered fountain in Paris, or St. Marks Square in Italy. I love them all!
Wow, wow, wow – love, love, love!! Fab offer and happy to subscribe and follow
Carla’s photography is moving! I find the snowy portraits of Paris serene and peaceful but I also like the Portrait of the lady with chaise in Italy. Well done!
What fabulous photos.
Love them all!
Loved the Luxembourg gardens prints, what a pleasure it would be to actually have one! Thanks for the opportunity!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful work! I chose Boat Along The River Seine, Paris Bridge, Morning Light, Seine River, Paris. Very hard to only find 1 favorite!
Hello Sharon! Thanks for your giveaway ! What a good present should be !
As I live in Barcelona and we have here wonderful facades wich I love I have chosen a París apartament. But I like meny others.
The photo I like is of the Montmartre steps. Hard to choose, so many beautiful Paris photos.
What a collection – Italy, Greece, France. Carla makes me want to pack a bag and head to the airport.
The image of the boat on the River Seine in Paris – morning light, makes me feel like I am back in Paris.
Beautiful photos. My favourite is the snow by the Seine quaies.
Oh my goodness. What a talent. Thank you so much for introducing me to the departure lounge. So many beauties to choose From but oh my Paris in the snow. How beautiful. I would choose the tree lined garden walk and let my imagination run rampant as the couple enjoyed a walk in the snow. Enroute to coffee or pastry or to a Christmas social. What wonderful gifts. Thank you for the opportunity
Sharon she is so talented. I love them all especially the White Baroque Door in Puglia!
xoxo
Karena
The Arts by Karena
I really liked the photograph of the picture at the bottom of stairs going up to a Paris street. I feel like I am on a journey right now of climbing stairs, and it is taking all I have got to lift my leg up to the next step.
You are right….her photos are amazing! Thanks for sharing Carla with us! I love each & every one of them, especially the ones with flowers!
thank you for this offer. I have been following Carla and her pictures are so well done. My favorites are the Place de Vosges in the winter. Merci
I love the outcome of using color film and developing in black and white photos. The intricate details are so distinct. What a wonderful eye Carla has. I would be over the moon if I was able to win one of her photos. I seem to be drawn to the one titled Eiffel Tower and Paris apartment even though all of the photos are fantastic. Thank you for sharing this giveaway.
This is a great giveaway! My favorite is the Stone Baroque Window. It brings me back to my childhood memories of summers spent in Italy. Very talented lady.
What a lovely way to acquaint us with these beautiful photographs. Having traveled to Greece last summer, I am in love with the color these photos represent. Also love the white on white Italian photo too.
Thanks for the opportunity to visit and register.
Love, Flo
Thank you for introducing me to Carla s stunning work ! All the photos are beautiful I will now sign up to Carla s website thank you again
My favorite is Paris Cafe, Paris Street
This is beyond so generous I woke up this morning and both of you were in my email, made my day!! I have been on etsy, your blog, and Carla’s for years, so dashed to Etsy and left Carla my choice & why, this is fantastic! I absolutely love her portrait photography of all the women she captures, a dream come true I am sure for these ladies! I am bubbling in joy to see so many that I have neve seen before! Merci Beaucoup!
I feel a great calm when looking through the photo’s….they are stunning!
I am enjoying them all….Paris is where my heart is…spent some time
there with my daughter,,, and you seem to capture some of my memories..
thank you !
Nichole
Carla’s work is fabulous, each piece she has captured intoxicates ones daydream of being in Paris. I would be over the moon to have one of her prints, but the delimma would be to pick just one. 🙂
would love to win! Paris is my dream trip, and you bring the city and countryside to life for me!
Gorgeous Images! it was hard to pick one, but i loved the interior of the Paris apartment. it looks so inviting!!
Just discovered your site today through Carla’s post on Facebook! Wow. I have to say this is great. Her work is beautiful (been a fan for a while now on facebook) and your site is lovely. Choosing one photo is so hard!!! But, if I must, it’s “Paris, Paris Streets, Paris Snow, Boulangerie, Le Marais, Paris Decor, French Decor, Black and White Photography”. I just love it.
We just returned to the states from a 2 year stay in Gif-sur-Yvette, an 45 min train ride out of Paris. Her photos make me want to go back all over again.
Favorited the print, her shop, and hoping for a chance.
Thank you for doing this too!
Love the snowy Paris scenes. There’s something so magical and rare about them….
LOVE all of her work! I would be THRILLED to have any of these, but especially like the blk/wht photo of the gentleman with his hand behind his back approaching the closed door. It evokes such emotion…perhaps a man approaching the end or beginning of something. Makes one think, in wonderment, what behind the door beholds.
Her photos are beautiful! Would love to win any of them. I chose the boat along the River Seine… or the Paris in winter ones….magical! Thank you for the opportunity!
Nicole M.
Absolutely stunning photos! Delighted to have found a new blog to subscribe to. The Baroque Window is my fave, but so many are just wonderful! Thanks for introducing her to us… 🙂
I chose Departure Lounge as a favorite shop on Esty.com. I also heart a few photos of Paris, France. My favorite of favorites is the man walking in the snow with the umbrella along the Seine River quay, Paris Streets, Paris Snow collection. The photograph opens for me a large dream room…the silence of the snow, pondering life’s magic, a bearded man, the perfume of wet wool, and once indoors, a neat Drambuie or hot toddie with enlivening conversation.
oh to be in France!
Love this photographer as much as the subject matter! Just beautiful.
Beautiful photography! I have a wall in my house that is not interesting, and this has inspired me to fill it with pictures of all the places I so long to visit one day! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Salut!
I’d love to win the “Luxembourg Gardens, Paris Gardens, Urns, Flowers, Chairs” image…I’ve been to Paris a few times and these pictures make me feel like I’m still there.
xx
I love Carla’s work! The “Eiffel Tower Paris Apartment” is one of my faves! There’s so many! Viewing her page makes me all that more excited about my upcoming winter getaway trip to Paris! 🙂
I like Helmut’s street in Paris. The beautiful door at the end of the street is like a welcome signal to the weary tourist to come in and visit. What a lovely photo and it reflects the beauty of Parisian streets. Just what I expected. Well done and bravo.
i just following ur website. i have enjoyed and look forward to it. thank u!
I love them all but I believe my favorite is the White Village. I love the one with the little flower box hanging on the side of the building. It’s my dream to get to Paris someday. What beautiful photography.
Beautiful photos, some of which make me want to go back to Paris – in the snow this time! My favorite is of Le Petit Fer au Cheval (?), the green cafe front in the snow with bicycles. Gorgeous!
Loved the photo of the Montmartre steps. I favorite it. I can remember huffing up those steps. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
You picked some good ones to show on the blog! I love Cafe L’Etincelle.
My absolute favorite, if you could name just one, is Carla’s Boat along the River Seine. I can just imagine it hanging in my living room, reminding me of Paris.
Wow, she has an amazing talent to capture beauty. I love the picture of the blue door in Italy and also the snow scenes!
Magnifique! You really have a lot of comments going here! The photography is beautiful…my favorite is the girl crossing the bridge, near the lamppost! Great composition in the photo and would love to put it in with my Ansel Adams black and white photos…relying to put together a b&w gallery together! one of my son’s is a photographer with some renown her in the states…he is the one who got me the Ansel Adams…when son started out he hadn’t heard of Adams when I told him I loved adam’s work! So I now have 3 lovely framed limited edition photos Adams took! Thanks for the chance to win one of her lovely photos!
What beautiful photos. So many to choose but I think my favorite is the Boat along the River Seine. Thank you for bringing Carla’s work to our attention and for the chance to win a print.
I visited her Etsy shop and inideed when I ticked favorite that was the truth. Her photos are remarkable. My favorite is Italy Photography, Italian Market, green olives , Puglia, Italian decor, Italian streets, food, blue
Love, love, love the Paris Apartment Façade! Love everything French and the gorgeous bright green tree really caught my eye. Thanks for introducing me to another great blog!
Thank you for this opportunity to win a photo by Carla Coulson, her work is amazing. I have chosen The Bridge on the River Seine because it reminds me of my early morning walks when I last visited Paris in the fall of 2010
Love them all, but my absolute favourite is Italy, Florence night wedding in white. So excited for the opportunity 🙂
Lynn
I liked the one of roses in the market but then fell in love with the snowy scene of trees in the park. Lovely photographs. I have visited Italy three times but France is my next destination.
I was only able to narrow it down to 4 favorites since all of the photos are so amazing! Thank you for introducing me to Carla’s blog / etsy shop!
Loving the stone baroque window in Italy 🙂
As a fellow Aussie afflicted with wanderlust I have loved Carla’s work for years, so while impossible to choose an absolute favourite, I shall settle on choosing a ‘first’, the black dress running through the streets of Capri as it captures my imagination… Running from, running to… Just love it!
What lovely photographs! I particularly love the one of the couple walking down a snowy street towards a boulangerie – I do hope we’ll have at least one snowfall in Paris this winter. I’ll keep my fingers crossed – both for snow and for the print (I’ve never won anything before…)!
How to choose…how to choose? So many beautiful ones. Hope I have a chance. Thank you.
been following her for such a long time + love the Luxembourg garden etc. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
So happy you TWO met!What fun………….to think I have met both of YOU too!Even more fun for me!Perhaps, she will have to hire Jill for HER ESTY shop now!!!!!!!!!!!!!I cannot believe 3 months has come to an end………….
I could NEVER pick just ONE………..they all speak to me.Then again I have many ORIGINALS………still searching for old frames!!!!!THAT was one of THE BEST things I have EVER done too!XO
Absolutely love the one of 2 people in front of Boulangerie in the snow. So hope I can win one. My daughter has visited Paris & I can’t wait to do the same. Winter in Paris how beautiful… This print is stunning.
Hi Sharon, lucky you getting to work with Carla. I would love to do a photo shoot with her one day. Maybe my next Paris trip……whenever that is going to be.
So glad that she is selling her photots and a wonderful chance to win one. Thank you. C x
Thank you for this giveaway opp. I love all the photos because they take me back to some of my most-loved places in the world.
Simply beautiful.
Love Carla’s photo’s, have her books, and would love to have one of her photo’s to grace my walls, All are fantastic, but there are a couple that stand out for me. One is the snowy Paris scene- I remember it was one of the biggest snow storms to hit Paris , and Carly was out snapping pictures while it was still snowing out and later posted them to her blog. They were surreal and stunning – especially of Paris’s oldest Square and the Place Des Vosges with the fountain.
My other favorite ( if that is even possible for they are all stunning) is the interior shot of the Paris apartment with the parquet floors, the beautiful fireplace, and the walls, and chairs, with the incredible light flooding the room. Like Carly, my heart skipped a beat when I saw this stunning apartment.
Wonderful photography such talent. I completed the steps and my favourite is the Paris Cafe…it speaks to me of our trip to Paris. Also love the baroque door in Italy. X
The white church and poppies make me happy.
Thank you!
Italian photography, baroque is my wish to have. All white with the beautiful ironwork.
I follow your blog.
I’m signing up at her blog and Facebook.
Laduree! I always brought home a box of Macarons from their store!
I’ve just managed to track down a copy of Carla’s ‘Italian Joy’ online, finally! Awaiting it now in the post. And lo and behold, I discover My French Country Home! A Christmas present to myself this next partnership of portraiture – your shared work of style and substance with Carla. I must be the only one in my adopted country Malta to own some Luxembourg jardin chairs, so I’d choose the soulful shot of them in slight (ever so slight, as it’s Paris!) disarray to give the story behind my pair ‘dehors’ that are soulfully littered with bougainvillea brachts!
Oh comme j’aimerais gagner une de ces affiches… Carla fait de si belles choses!
Wow, I would love to win one of these photos! It was very hard to choose a favorite! I just loved the snow scenes in Paris, and the long staircases; but chose those beautiful baroque doors from the castle in Italy! Thanks for introducing me to Carla and her blog!
Such beautiful photographs! The Parisian Apartment Facade is one that I love with its iron grillwork against the creamy stone.
Looking forward to exploring Carla’s blog.
The river Seine, the cafes, the winter scenes….they are ALL beautiful!
Carla’s work is just gorgeous! If I were to win, I would chose the “Paris Cafe” scene in the Marais. Merci for the chance to win! I’ve favorited her shop and am now following her, too!
I am now following Carla’s website, please enter me again in your tres magnifique giveaway! Merci!
I really love her Paris Cafe photo, I would pick that one!! I would love to win, please enter me. I have favorited it, and am a follower of yours!
So beautiful but my favorite is the white church with red poppies.
I favorited Carla’s shop.
Love the “Paris Apartment, Paris Interior, Moulded Walls, Paris, France” Such inspiring photos. Thank you for directing me to Carla’s website.
Beautiful…each one! How lovely to have such an eye!! Would be beautiful to behold in one’s home each day!!! Thank you!!
All of these photos are awesome, but for me, Bridge Over The River Seine, Pont Au Change, Paris Bridge, Morning Light, Seine River, Paris would look lovely in my home. Thank you for the chance to enter your giveaway! Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
I love the empty jardin luxemburg photo:).
Hi Sharon, all the photographs are beautiful, how would you choose? I have black and whites of Paris, New York and Spain they are my treasures. But I don’t have one of Italy I love the one of Venice, St. Marks Square. If I had enough walls I would want all of them. Thank you for sharing beauty. Till next time Regards Esther from Sydney.
Ah, the boulangerie in the snow (Paris, Paris Streets, Paris Snow, Boulangerie, Le Marais, Paris Decor, French Decor, Black and White Photography). What a beautiful photo. Thank you for offering such a wonderful give away!
So difficult to choose! I’d love to collect one of each 🙂 I can;t look away from the black and whites, in particular.
I love the Boulangerie one! So stunning in black and white.
Looking forward to having a look around your site .. looks wonderful so far 🙂
The Paris pictures are wonderful, it would be hard to pick just one.
I love them all, but I think my favorite is the Place des Vosges in winter.
I’ve been following Carla’s blog for a while now and enjoy the portrait photo shoots that she does. I so wanted to book a session the last time I was in Paris, but just never got around to it. Definitely for the next trip! I particularly admire her courage when she decided to take her life in an entirely different direction and it’s so wonderful that’s she’s sharing that adventure with us! I also want to learn more about photography with her on one of her Italy workshop vacations….fun & learning at the same time! I adore the winter scenes in Paris, but since we’ll be seeing snow around here in New England sooner than I want, I went looking for something else, lol. My favorite turned out to be “Paris Apartment, Paris Interior, Moulded Walls” which is the first photo you show here on your blog. I just love the time-worn look, the enticement of the bergere chair that makes me want to languish away a snowy Paris afternoon with a flute of champagne & macarons (or any decadent dessert!) close at hand. I would really love this for my sewing workshop as I can imagine this room draped in luxe fabrics and pillows! I think it would provide lots of inspiration for me to create a beautiful room.
Gorgeous Photos! My favorite is the Paris Streets and the Paris Cafe! Take care and I would love to win a beautiful print from Carla Coulson.
So hard to choose! Boat along the river Seine.
Picked the b&w staircase in Paris.
Be still my beating heart – those snowy trees at Place des Vosges!
I love all the winter photos and the boat on the river Seine!!
Carla is an amazing photographer! It’s a difficult choice but I especially love her Paris scenes. xx, B
My favorite is Roses Paris, Pink Roses. Fingers crossed.
Have loved Carla’s books, & now her website – her photos are so evocative, the b&w are especially timeless…
(Love your emails, too – I often use your photos as my computer wallpaper, & my husband always comments favourably when I do!)
Paris scenes are always so pleasing……..love the architechture and so many lovely photos to choose from. It would be a blessing to win.
Loved your story of armistice day. I have a daughter Helen and my father-in-law was Fernand………your stories with your choice of pictures bring a little touch of class to our day, n’est ce pas?
With a joyful heart,
I would love to step into Carla’s photo of the snowy street with the Boulangerie & the couple walking in Paris 😉
I have been a follower of Carla’s work for a few years now. I love how her photography it places us there such a joy . I am a hopeless Francophile so I choose the couple walking in the snow towards the Boulangerie . I ‘d love to place on my vision board as my husband only feels a holiday is in warm weather not snow.
Oh I spent ages looking at Carla’s pictures, how can you choose a favourite amongst so many exquiste photos?
There are some fabulous ones of Greece but I chose Venice, the man crossing the bridge, after all, I see Greece every day!
Venice is the most beautiful place on earth, there : I said it! More beautiful than Greece!
Susan.x
I LOVE her work and Paris, and would be honored to win a large photo!
This was a great post.
I love these photographs and Paris! I would be honored to win
a large photo of one of my favorite places.
Hard to choose between the interior and exteriors shots!
Walking through the streets of Paris…sort of losing track of time…glancing up and there is a pot of flowers or a street lamp..or the Eiffel Tower…love all Carla’s photos..a favorite must be the couple walking in the snow..but then the bridge over the Seine…it will take time to choose – would love to win one!
Hi Sharon,
I love your blog. I love your life! And I like the photo of Laduree Champ Elysees.
Thank you!
Jane Pratt
I loved all of the photos! But I chose Autumn light on the Seine with the girl crossing the Bridge. It’s ethereal ! Diana
Decisions – Decisions – Decisions! How does one choose beautiful art? After much debating I chose the boat on the Seine – magnificent!
Hi Sharon,
I went to Carla’s site and liked the boats with the cars in the background and the montestary. I put the heart on it; but I’m not sure if I did it the right way…
I, too, am married to an Italian, and we’ve enjoyed many months visiting my husband’s family through the years. This picture reminds me of the area he is from. Unfortunately, due to work restrictions, I have been unable to visit for the past four years, and it looks like I won’t be able to get back for several more, at least. Having this print would bring a smile on my face in the meantime.
As a side note, my husband’s cousin from his home town has been visiting with us since mid-September and will be here til 23 December. I’m enjoying her cooking every day!!!
Ciao,
Patricia
So funny…the very first one is my favorite!!!
Beautiful images. My fav might just have to be the blue wooden boats at Polignano al Mare, Puglia. The colors are glorious!!
What fun to share a contest! signed up, favourited the b & w near rue Bourg Tibourg of the Boulangerie.
ALL the photographs are stunning! I especially love the black & white photo of the Paris steps. I’ve hearted Carla’s shop (and several of the photos!). I have just the spot for one of her beauties…
Thanks for introducing me to this talented photographer. I am going to be ordering a few of her items for my home and for Christmas presents. Of course, I would LOVE to win one as well. It was difficult to choose my favorite, but the boat of the River Seine was so stunning that I would have to choose that one above all the rest. I have soft, buttery yellows in my bedroom – and I feel that photo is “the one” to frame and hang above my bed. Love, love, love!!!!! In addition, Sharon, I love your blog and always look forward to reading it and looking at your gorgeous pictures.
Best,
Michelle from simplysantabarbara.blogspot.com 🙂
so many beautiful images. The Paris snow scenes are just magical but I also love the apartment facades.
Hi Sharon,
Thank you for introducing your readers to women with such talent. My favorite photograph is Boulangerie… I just want to be there!
Thank you for introducing Carla and her work to me. I subscribed to her website and am already subscribed to yours. Her work is extraordinary. I would love one of her photos. Also, your website makes my day! I just love the blog? By the way, what type of a book are you working now? Thanks!
Oops, there should be exclamation marks, not a question mark on my comment about loving your blog!
I’d love to win one of her prints – they are beautiful
Hi, they are beautiful. My favorite is “Paris, Paris Garden, Place Des Vosges Snow, Paris Streets, Paris Decor, French Décor” I love gardens in the snow, sometimes even better than the spring! Fingers crossed!
I would have a hard time choosing which one I like best; they are all so gorgeous. I do know that any one of them would be treasured by me and hung with great care in a place of honor. What a privilege it would be to be the proud owner of one. Thank you for introducing me to Carla and her work.
Linda (near Seattle)
Thank you for introducing me to Carla! I love her photography, and I find it hard to choose just one photo. I favorited a whole bunch as well as her shop. I think my favorite is Cafe L’Etincelle. I also love the picture above of her taking a photo and looking so happy.
Which one to pick – there are so many! 🙂
I’ll choose Paris cafe ‘Etincelle’.
Oh my! What fabulous photos. I love the blue baroque door in Italy and the steps in Montmartre…. but I could name many more!! It would be a real honor to have one of Carla’s beautiful photos hanging in my home! It’s wonderful both you and Carla are offering this wonderful ‘give away.’ Thank you, both!
Beautiful photography! I am leaning toward “Italy Photography, blue wooden boats, Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italian decor, fishing boats, italian architecture, patina” as my favorite!
Oh Sharon how beautiful not sure if I’m doing this correctly, not great with technology!!! If I was soooo lucky I would love either Blue Barogue or Italian Door in the White Village but any would be wonderful, going to try Carla’s site!
What a wonderful idea to sell these beautifutl photos and how gorgeous from you both to give away one!
It’ s really hard to decide, every one is beautiful in a different way an it makes me dream of something. At the moment I guess I prefer Paris Cafe, Paris Street, Le Marais, Paris Buildings, Paris Door.
It would love to sit there and have a coffee! 🙂
such a hard job to pick just one picture out…they are all stunning and depending on the mood I’m in, or the weather, would change…finally went for the one with the roses, do love a splash of colour, just to wake me up or to give me some energy when a bit down! Enjoy the weekend everyone!
ah wonderful! I am already on Carla’s blog and love her photography,
I love the print Boulangerie..the couple that are walking in the snow in La Marais. Gorgeous! ta for the second chance
What lovely images. I would love to have one in my home.
Beautiful photos! I want to pack and return to Paris right now! Inspiring me for my trip to enjoy Italy next fall.
The photos are beautiful and inspirational. Thank you for the opportunity to live with one!
Cheers!
What a wonderful giveaway! I would be so delighted to win.
Your blog is lovely and the new look is perfect. These photos are a dream. My son just got married and he and his wife love black and white photography, this would make such a wonderful gift for Christmas. I know you have so many requesting because it is truly an amazing give-a-way. Thank you for the chance to win one. God bless.
Lisa
wow really beautiful photos!!!
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